After Connecticut and Kentucky there’s a big drop — equivalent to one national championship run — before you get down to plucky underdogs like Arizona, Louisville, Syracuse, and Wisconsin. No other program has won more than 25 games. (Full team list at the bottom of this post. Limber up your scrolling finger.)

On the other side of this coin a clear majority of the programs in Division I — 59 percent — has yet to win a single NCAA tournament game this century. That winless bunch includes the following legacy major-conference programs:

Nebraska
Northwestern
Oregon State
Providence
Rutgers
South Carolina

(“Legacy” meaning “major-conference” is a contested adjective in 2014. By some lights East Carolina is now a major-conference program. The Pirates haven’t won a tournament game in the past 15 years either.)

Not content with already sheltering the only major-conference team to have never even participated in the NCAA tournament, the Big Ten has made it a policy to go out and acquire other programs that haven’t won a tournament game this century. Go figure.

Meanwhile the ACC has pursued a decidedly un-Big-Ten strategy and chosen to acquire teams that do win NCAA tournament games. The results are clear to see:

In terms of recent March glory the American is UConn and everyone else. No other major or near-major conference has such a large share of its tournament wins (46 percent) concentrated in just one team.